GOVT TAKES STEPS TO ENSURE TRANSPARENCY IN AICTE
Basant Kumar Mohanty, New Delhi
Business Standard
To ensure transparency in the functioning of AICTE, whose top brass is facing corruption cases, the government will make it mandatory for the agency to display information online about progress in the applications of institutes for approval or accreditation.
The government is set to launch e-governance system in All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) under which the representatives of institutes will not have to come to the agency's office to track their cases.
Under the e-governance project, any institute can know online the status of its application pertaining to approval for new courses, increasing intake of existing programmes or accreditation to its programmes.
"The purpose is to bring transparency in the system. By this e-governance system, every institute will be able to track the progress in their applications on line. They need not come to AICTE office. This will help reduce corruption," a source said.
This will be similar to the PNR number system of railways under which passengers are able to know progress in confirmation of their tickets.
"The AICTE will also display if there is any laxity on part of the institute which seeks approval or accreditation. The institutes can fulfill the deficiencies and comply," the source said.
Under the e-governance project, the regional offices of AICTE will be inter-linked. A high-level committee has been set up to go into the modalities for implementation of the project.
The HRD Ministry has also directed higher educational institutions to provide information in their website relating to availability of infrastructure and physical assets, grants-in-aid provided by the government and its utilisation and admission criteria.
INFOSYS PROMISES FAIRNESS IN UIAI DEAL
Chennai
The Times of India
Dispelling any doubts that one may have, IT major Infosys said that highest level of transparency would be maintained on inking a deal with Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI) headed by former co-chairman of the company Nandan M Nilekani.
Nilekani was formally appointed as Chairman of UIAI, by the government last month. It has earmarked around Rs 120 crore to provide biometric identity card to every citizens.
Domestic players are likely to bid for the project, which could be valued around two billion dollars.
"Both Infosys and Nilekani will make sure that there is highest level of transparency in the deal. We have to wait and see," Infosys CEO and Managing Director S Gopalakrishnan said.
Gopalakrishnan was here to participate in the sixth edition of HR Summit 2009 organised by Nasscom.
IRDA EARMARKS RS 20 CRORE FOR AWARENESS DRIVE
TE Narasimhan, Chennai
Business Standard
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) is planning to join hands with the Ministry of Consumer Affairs to spread awareness on insurance and has earmarked Rs 20 crore for the campaign.
Irda Chairman J Hari Narayan said one of the biggest challenges for the industry was to spread awareness and make the industry more transparent. ?We are planning to create software which would capture the grievances data of companies, which in turn will be made public.?
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